Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co. v. Harper

Bailey, J„

This was an action on the case, brought by Arthur 0. Harper against the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Bailway Company, to recover damages for a personal injury. At the time of said injury certain of the employes of the defendant were engaged in repairing one of the defend-, ant’s railway tracks running along a public street of the City of Chicago, and were in the act of cutting a piece off from the end of a bar of railroad iron by means of a cold chisel and hammer or beetle, and as the plaintiff was crossing the street or standing near where said employes were at work, a small…